China News Service, Beijing, January 25 (Reporter Sun Zifa) A major environmental and biological innovation incident occurred in the European continent about 2 million years ago – the “Short Kiss Hyena Incident” and related research have attracted much attention from the academic community.
As the largest bone-breaking hyena in the history of the earth, the now extinct hyenas that once dominated the animal kingdom, has long been regarded as an indigenous group in Europe. However, the discovery of a huge hyena specimen of a very large individual in Dalian, China, and the latest research on the sample by Chinese and foreign scientists has completely overturned the above tradition and inherent understanding. On this basis, researchers also proposed the “Northeast Asian Origin Theory” of short-smelling hyenas for the first time.
Why do you need to study short-kissed hyenas?
Researcher Liu Jinyi of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) who led this research said that the size of the short-kissed hyenas is much larger than the close species in life, such as the spotted hyenas and the white hyenas, and its weight is comparable to that of the current lioness of the Babaylan 1990 cloth draw. Its influence is completely comparable to that of the sabooth tigers and other saber-toothed tigers of the same era, and it is even more than that of the saber-toothed tigers. After all, its number of individuals is much larger than the latter. In the animal kingdom at that time, it once dominated the country and was the best in the world.
Although the short-kissed hyenas have long been extinct, it was very prosperous and widely distributed in Eurasia during the early and mid-Pleistocene periods. It was a common and typical animal species in mammals at that time, and it was also a focus species that attracted much attention in the succession and innovation research of Pleistocene fauna. Its appearance and extinction usually have a landmark connotation. For example, the “short-kissed hyenas incident” refers to a major environmental and biological innovation event that occurred on the European continent about 2 million years ago.
The short-skinned hyena has a series of unique anatomical morphological characteristics and is eye-catching: the strong skull and mandibular, the developed sagittal crest and zygomatic arch, the premolarsBabaylan 1990 cloth draw is extremely thick and thick enamel, etc., all of which are unique mechanical adaptive manifestations of their unique diet. The gathering and burial of animal bones in many early and mid-Pleistocene fossil sites is largely due to the specific foraging behavior of short-kissed hyenas – transporting and hiding animal bones.
What are the controversies about the research on short-kissed hyenas?
Liu Jinyi pointed out that the short-kissed hyena that frequently appears in Eurasia has been produced by different origins.Or the age, it has been classified into different species, such as the Sang family’s hyenas, the Chinese hyenas or the (narrow sense) short-kissing hyenas, etc. The academic community currently lacks a unified and clear understanding of the true system relationship between these hyenas. There is a lot of differences and controversy: some people argue that hyenas in different regions or ages should represent several different effective independent species; some people believe that all hyenas in Eurasia should be the same type, and perhaps include different subspecies (groups); and even more, even the differentiation of subspecies (groups) is completely denied.
This kind of “unification” and denies the division of subspecies (groups) is quite popular in today’s academic circles. Influenced by this, the academic community has long ignored comparative studies on the anatomical morphology of hyenas in these different regions or chronology, and has not been able to well evaluate and explore the phylogenetic significance and connotation of different morphology (although sometimes subtle) between hyenas.
The above disputes and differences have in turn affected the in-depth development of other relevant academic issues, such as the origin of the short-skinned hyena, the spread dynamics and migration paths between the continents. There are many different opinions in the academic community about this and there is no consensus.
How does the latest research subvert traditional cognition? Focusing on controversial academic hot topics that have attracted much attention in the field of the origin and evolution of short-sex hyenas, Liu Jinyi, with relevant experts and scholars from the University of Bristol, the National Museum of Prague, the Czech Republic, Peking University, and the Dalian Natural Museum, to conduct a key study on a large individual hyenas specimen V26310 recently collected in the Jinyuan Cave of Luotuo Mountain, Dalian, and to conduct a key study on the most large individual hyenas specimen V26310, and to other relevant Eurasian continents. cloth draw performs extensive and systematic comparison of morphology and data, and conducts in-depth discussions and analysis of the systematic classification of hyenas, origin and intercontinental migration and diffusion, and paleoecology related academic issues.
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What is the basis for the “Northeast Asia Origin Theory”?
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Liu Jinyi pointed out that the first appearance of the short-kissed hyenas in the European continent has attracted great attention and interest. People generally believe that the short-kissed hyenas should have migrated from areas outside Europe, and it is believed that the first appearance of the hyeenas in many places such as Italy, Greece and Spain about 2 million years ago, deeply reflecting the “short-kissed hyenas incident” experienced by the European continent. However, people have vaguely described the exact origin of the European continent’s short kiss hyena, and finally lacked reliable and convincing fossil evidence.
“The discovery of short-kissed hyenas in Jinyuan Cave in Dalian brought light to the solution of this puzzle and provided credible empirical information for the first time.” Liu Jinyi said that although the geological age of the V26310 specimen was estimated to be only 1.86 million years agoCinema 1950 witch cloth draw, there is evidence that the emergence of short-kissed hyenas in Jinyuan Cave in Dalian can be traced back to 2 million years or even earlier. Therefore, it is very likely that the short-kissed hyenas were first born in Northeast Asia, and then spread to other parts of Asia, and finally arrived in Europe. Based on the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, the cooperative team proposed the “Northeast Asian Origin Theory” of the short-kissed hyenas for the first time.
V26310Babaylan 1990 cloth drawWhat is the significance of the research on specimen discovery?
As the largest hyena in the history of the earth, the weight and size of the hyena with short kisses have always been a topic of concern in the academic community, and almost every article involvesAnd research papers on short-skinned hyena will repeatedly mention the eye-catching feature of excessive body size. Previously, the largest body size record of the short-sniff hyena is from a pattern specimen from the French Sainzelles, whose cranial base is 322 mm long, which is very close to the largest individual of the current African lion. Liu Jinyi said that the newly discovered short-skinned hyena V26310 specimen found in Dalian, China, is larger than the French model specimen, whether in the length of the teeth or the thickness of the jaw bone. It is estimated that its cranial base length reaches 332 mm, which not only surpasses the largest male lion in today’s Africa, but also can even compare to the largest feline American lion in history.
He believes that the V26310 specimen produced in Jinyuan Cave in Dalian is most likely to represent the largest individual specimen of a short-smelled hyena discovered so far. Today’s research shows that the size or weight of mammals, especially carnivorous animals, directly affects the ecological behavior, energy and physiological needs of individuals, as well as predation strategies.
“So, as the largest individual discovered so far, the emergence of the V26310 specimen will surely help people better understand and correctly evaluate the biological characteristics of the short-sex hyenas, such as the physiological habits, foraging behaviors and predation strategies, etc.,” Liu Jinyi concluded. (End)